The development of interfaces has been a technology-driven process. However, the newly
developed multimodal interfaces are using recognition-based technologies that must …

This special issue of the Journal is concerned with speech and language processing issues
in the overall environment of end-to-end dialogue systems, and in particular with the sorts of …

Advances in speech recognition, language processing and natural interaction have led to an
increased industrial and academic interest. While the robustness and usability of such …

Optical See-through Head-Mounted Displays (OHMDs) offer new opportunities for
completing complex information processing tasks on the go. We introduce GlassMail, a …

Multimodal conversational spoken dialogues using physical and virtual agents provide a
potential interface to motivate and support users in the domain of health and fitness. In this …

The paper describes experimental dialogue data collection activities, as well semantically
annotated corpus creation undertaken within EU-funded METALOGUE project (www …

In natural language dialogue, contributions from the participants are generally
multifunctional, that is, in a single contribution a speaker addresses multiple aspects of …

We present findings from the long-term study of a speech-based bus timetable system. After
the deployment of the prototype system we have collected data from real usage for 30 …

We present a new approach to dialogue management based on the use of multiple,
interconnected policies. Instead of capturing the complexity of the interaction in a single …

Research regarding multimodal interaction led to a multitude of proposals for suitable
software architectures. With all architectures describing multimodal systems differently …